Blast: A Magazine of Proletarian Short Stories
Blast: A Magazine of Proletarian Short Stories was an American literary magazine that ran for five issues from September 1933 to November 1934.[1] It has been credited as a forerunner "to a wave of independent radical journals that sprang up in surprising numbers in the United States in the following years".[2] Based in New York City, it was edited by Fred and Betty Miller.[1]
Each of the five issues of Blast included an original work by William Carlos Williams, who was a friend of the Millers.[1] The magazine was intended by the Millers to serve as an alternative to New Masses which had, up to that point, dominated the leftist literary space in the United States.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Ezra Pound and 'Globe' Magazine: The Complete Correspondence. Bloomsbury. 2015. p. 313. ISBN 1472589602.
- ^ Rozendal, Michael (Fall 2007). "Forms of Need: William Carlos Williams in the Radical Thirties Little Journals". William Carlos Williams Review. 27 (2): 137.
- ^ Wixson, Douglas (1994). Worker-writer in America: Jack Conroy and the Tradition of Midwestern Literary Radicalism, 1898-1990. University of Illinois Press. p. 301. ISBN 0252067851.